 My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep; and my mother milked thirty kine.  The Life of Bernard Gilpin - Page 78de William Gilpin - 1824 - 270 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | English Dialect Society - 1883 - 490 pages
...one of his sermons, gives the following little history of his own family. " My father had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pounds a year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walks for... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1883 - 282 pages
...the time he was speaking. Here are his very words '7 : — " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year »t the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk... | |
 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - 1883 - 548 pages
...with other are so unreasonably enhanced." Again, he says, "My father was a yeoman, nr>'l ha>l no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound hv year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-a-dozen men. He had walk... | |
 | Henry Mayers Hyndman - 1883 - 1044 pages
...with other are so unreasonably enhanced." Again, he says, " My father was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half-a-dozen men. He had walk... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1886 - 428 pages
...manners, thoughts, and events of the period." "My father," he writes, "was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound a year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 414 pages
...manners, thoughts, and events of the period." "My father," he writes, "was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound a year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1890 - 462 pages
...preached before the king, in which he said: "My father was a yeoman [small farmer], and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pounds 1 This was owing to the greed for land on the part of the mercantile classes, who had now acquired... | |
 | 1891 - 938 pages
...demoralised, Latimer, preaching before the king, relates : " My father was a yeoman, and had no lauds of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pounds a year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. lie had walk for... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - 1893 - 460 pages
...interfere with it. Here, however, we are not without very tolerable information. "My father," says Latimer, "was a yeoman, and had no land of his own ; only he had &farm of three or four pounds by the year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1893 - 186 pages
...small estate. Thus old Bishop Latimer, speaking of his father, says " he was a yeoman, and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound a year at the uttermost and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men." " Many solutions,"... | |
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